Discipline: Literature – poetry

Laurie Kutchins

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Albuquerque, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Laurie Kutchins is an American poet who grew up in Wyoming. She graduated from Carleton College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s M.F.A. Program for Poets and Writers. She is an associate professor in the English Department at James Madison University and has been a visiting writer at the University of New Mexico and a faculty member of the Taos Summer Writers Conference. Kutchins’ work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, Poetry, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, and LIT. She is the recipient of the Isabella Gardner Award for Poetry and the Texas Tech University Press First Book Award as well as fellowships and grants from the Virginia Council on the Arts, the Pennsylvania Commission on the Arts, James Madison University, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Studios

Phi Beta

Laurie Kutchins worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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